Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Where the fit is close they may serve their entire career in that organization .
2 In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group .
3 ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’
4 The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with .
5 They may cost you a couple of hundred quid , but they look as if your grandmother may have knitted them from one of her own patterns .
6 So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ?
7 So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ?
8 It is not uncommon for the carer to fear that they may predecease their partner , who will thus be deserted .
9 Their responses included : They may expect it of us .
10 If they 've had a few beers , they m they may leave something else behind .
11 If they are wrong , then we are without guidance and they may leave us , which would be catastrophic .
12 So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state .
13 They may choose what breakfast cereals or brand of baked beans they will eat , and have some discretionary expenditure within their pocket money .
14 Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way .
15 But if the other party does n't use this level of response themselves , they may regard you as insincere or phoney .
16 whatever and maybe if it 's a good correspondence course they may refer you to the actual you know things you should have er read and so on
17 They may envy us our power and dependency , which , despite appearing to be contradictory qualities , are not .
18 And they may envy our potential to do this .
19 My whole being snags and crackles with broken glass , but that 's all right , because although they may smell me , nobody sees me and nobody knows me .
20 If they ask for an explanation and are told that it is shooting at a wooden bird in the graveyard with bows and arrows , they may think they are being hoaxed .
21 Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up .
22 On the one hand , they may think it unfair if we dismiss Chrissie and retain Fred .
23 They may think it 's just because it contains a reference to the Khedive 's family . ’
24 Candidates should send to the undersigned ten copies ( one from overseas ) of their applications and of any statement that they may think it desirable to submit , and should name three referees .
25 The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories .
26 When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , .
27 They may want you to help to sort out the personal belongings of the dead partner , which is always a painful job .
28 Many children do n't look forward to a visit to the doctor 's — not surprising , as they may associate it with illness or injections .
29 The falcons share with the owls ( p. 177 ) a number of marked behaviour differences from hawks , eagles , buzzards and other members of the Accipitridae ( p. 70 ) ; their droppings fall straight down from the perch instead of being squirted away ; they build no nest of their own ; they kill their prey by biting and severing the back of the neck ; they hold their food in one claw ; the young hiss when afraid or threatening ; and they may bob their heads to show curiosity .
30 They may crave what their stomach is averse to ; indecisive .
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